The African Christian Democratic Party in Parliament has criticised the closure of about 359 farm schools as a failure in the education development strategy.
School children walking home in a rural part of South Africa
The Minister discloses this in her reply to a written parliamentary question by Democratic Alliance MP Denis Joseph.KwaZulu-Natal province has the highest number of schools closed at 230 since 2021. In Limpopo and the Eastern Cape 51 and 39 schools were closed respectively. Mhlanga says another challenge the department has been experiencing is that many of the farm owners tend to prevent any continuation of the school operations on their land once the lease contracts expire.
“But in the cases where schools have been closed, we make arrangements to transport the learners to other schools in the neighbouring areas because we do not want any learner being compromised to the extent that they are not able to access education. So, we have provision in the basic education system called the measures and closures of schools which means on a daily basis, we monitor the operations of our schools. Every year we checked the numbers.
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